. The North Devon coast. THE gUAY, CLOVELLY. cliff of Gallantry Bower protrudes a shelteringshoulder ; the smoke from Clovelly chimneys onstill days ascending perpendicularly against itsdark green background, with a comforting, cosysense of snug homesteads, sufficient though Red Lion stands prominently here, anodd building with something of a Swiss suggestion,and a tunnel through its lieavy mass leading to acobble-stoned courtyard, where you see an up- THE OUAY POOL 221 turned boat or two, a scatter of domestic fowlssearching for grains, and making shift with sea-weed ; and perliaps
. The North Devon coast. THE gUAY, CLOVELLY. cliff of Gallantry Bower protrudes a shelteringshoulder ; the smoke from Clovelly chimneys onstill days ascending perpendicularly against itsdark green background, with a comforting, cosysense of snug homesteads, sufficient though Red Lion stands prominently here, anodd building with something of a Swiss suggestion,and a tunnel through its lieavy mass leading to acobble-stoned courtyard, where you see an up- THE OUAY POOL 221 turned boat or two, a scatter of domestic fowlssearching for grains, and making shift with sea-weed ; and perliaps one of those patient, all-en-during little Clovelly donkeys, submitting to be. BACK OF THE RED LION, CLOVELLY. loaded up with a heavy sack by a burly fisherman,who looks distinctly the better able of the two tohump the burden. Along the wall of the Red Lion, facing thepool, runs a bench, full in the sun, and there thefishermen of Clovelly sit. They sit there so long 222 THE NORTH DEVON COAST and so often that they have Uttle conversation :their pipes and the mere supporting presence ofeach other appearing to be quite satisfying. beheve altogether in the alleged Romanorigin of Clovelly, but I saw a fisherman, one ofthe company on this bench, whose clean-shavenface was the very counterpart of Julius Caesars. Clovelly fishermen are famed for their endur-ance and Clovelly herrings for their flavour. Allthrough the West the fame of these herrings hasgone forth. Yarmouth and Lowestoft may mea-sure the catch of herring by the last. Clovellyreckons so many * maise. A maise is 612,and is arrived at as follows : three herrings makeone cast, a handful : fift
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